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The free Big Island event offered crafts, games, food, informational fun booths, entertainment, prize giveaways, including backpacks with school supplies and starter emergency kits, and more.

In June 2020, the Hawai‘i Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state breached its trust duty to Native Hawaiian beneficiaries of the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust program by not awarding homestead lots in a timely manner.

Levon Vares-Young made her initial court appearance for the firearms charges Friday. She appeared in court Thursday for charges related to criminal property damage and resisting an order to stop.

In his new role as vice provost of student success, Steven D. Fenster will collaborate with the University’s center for academic success, student life, library and learning commons teams.

As part of a tradition of honoring their fallen brother, about a dozen officers within Hawai‘i Police Department will participate in the annual Bronson Kaliloa Memorial Relay Run on Sunday.

The astronomical event known as Lāhainā Noon happens when the sun passes directly overhead of locations in the tropics, which includes Hawai‘i, and causes upright and smooth-sided objects to be “shadowless.”

The search was part of the FBI’s Operation Cross Country XIII, a coordinated operation among other federal agencies, state and local police, and social services agencies across the country to locate and recover runaways considered “high risk” and/or “endangered.”

The Hawaiʻi State Board of Land and Natural Resources have deferred oral arguments regarding a petition from the Mauna Kea Hui for a declaratory ruling concerning the Thirty Meter Telescope.

Don’t forget to vote in the latest poll. Let us know your favorite Pana‘ewa Zoo resident.

As senior sales manager, Patlidzanov will oversee sales activities for both Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort on O‘ahu and Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island.

Kīlauea’s activity from 2018 until 2023 has been compared to cycles of summit collapse and refilling of lava prior to 1924, but it also exhibited similar behavior during the 1967-68 Halema‘uma‘u eruption.

A U.S. Senate delegation, led by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), went to Iceland to learn about the countryʻs work on climate change, to strengthen U.S.-Iceland ties and discuss the NATO Alliance.

American Idol winner Iam Tongi stopped by the Kings’ Shops in Waikoloa on Wednesday , with his mother Lillie, to enjoy one of their favorite treats from the Original Big Island Shave Ice Company.

Serenity Salmo-Kaawa, 15, was last seen in Hilo on May 18.  

Upon entry into the second business, officers discovered a masked man, later identified as Derick Camacho, making verbal threats and physically dragging a 61-year-old male victim into a back room.

Gravitt is described as Caucasian, 6 feet tall, approximately 180 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes, and a beard. He also has several tattoos on his face and neck areas.

Two wells, owned and operated by Kohala Ranch, temporarily lost service Wednesday morning.

Witnesses at the scene reported that a 66-year-old Kea‘au man fell from the bed of a green pick-up truck while it was traveling south through an intersection.

Whether you’re looking for Iive music, want to cruise around the island, try your hand at lady luck, experience culture or celebrate Bengal tigersʻ birthdays at the zoo, we have all the information. Here’s your Top 20 events on Big Island this week.

Hawai‘i Island police, in conjunction with Hope Services Hawaiʻi, held a backpack drive for island keiki during the months of June and July.